Profiles in Risk

Tony chats with Jimmy Paskell, Co-Founder & CEO at ButFor, an insurtech that models risks proactively and automates business interruption claims. Built by a forensic accountant and focused on helping policyholders it's a very interested model.

Jimmy Paskell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmypaskell/
ButFor: https://butfor.co/

Tony chats with Cindy Baroway, long-time insurance professional, former president of the CPCU Society, and former Executive Director of the RMI Program at the University of Colorado. This is a career conversation with great advice for the next generation of insurance professionals.

Cindy Barroway: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindybaroway/

Tony chats with Kasey Roh, Head of US at Upstage AI, they are an enterprise AI startup building next generation intelligent document processing technology. They build end to end from pipeline to delivery with with best in class accuracy and performance with everything vertically integrated.

Kasey Roh: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaseyroh/
Upstage AI: https://www.upstage.ai/

Tony chats with Curtis Barton, Founder & CEO at Alkeme. It started as an amalgamation of 7 agencies that came together with an idea that they'd be stronger together. Initially it was to get market access. Then they went from affiliate group to becoming a single agency, brought in private equity and became an owner operator model insurance agency. They focused on data integrity from day 1 and have grown from $25M in 2020 to $350M in 2025 and are now a Top 25 player! They also now offer "The Alchemy Collective". A fascinating episode about one of the most successful agencies of this decade.

Curtis Barton: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtisbarton/
Alkeme: https://alkemeins.com/

Tony chats with Phil Hong, Co-Founder & CEO at GuideAI, they are a client onboarding platform that allows them to enable any legacy platform into a voice enabled agentic platform without needing to rip and replace.

Phil Hong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-hong/
GuideAi: https://www.getguide.ai/

Tony chats with returning guest Mark Miller, Founder at Insurevision.Ai to give us an update and show us the platform. Insurevision.AI they are a state of the art transformer AI which turns video into a measure of risk which helps you understand driver claims, improve driver quality, save lives, save money, and make your community safer. Their video risk assessment tool FleetVision, a video based system that measures what the driver does. Telematics measures what the vehicle does, but it can't differentiate whether an "event" was dangerous or whether it was a skilled driver avoiding an accident. A "smooth" driver could be half asleep and telematics might not catch it.

Mark Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-miller-81a89b149/
InsureVision: https://insurevision.ai/
Prior Episode on PIR: https://youtu.be/YQk6heUL_3w?si=CEogzlm1TQT-_mfS

Tony chats with LaMar Garrett, Marketing & Communications Specialist at Redbird Security, they are an insurance specific MSP and Cybersecurity company offering full support across Applied Epic, HawkSoft, and AMS360.

LaMar Garrett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lamar-it/
RedBird Security: https://redbirdsecurity.com/

Tony chats with Yehuda Daniel Katz, Co-Founder & CEO at RiskRemedy, they offer AI-powered technology to retail and wholesale insurance brokers helping with back-office workflows including: Policy Review, Quote Comparison, Renewal Comparison, Compliance Checks, Portfolio Tracking, Proposal Generation, and more. Their biggest differentiator is they're designing it to be easy to adopt and highly unified across workflows.

Yehuda Daniel Katz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielykatz/
RiskRemedy: https://www.RiskRemedy.io

Tony chats with Brian Graff, CEO & Founder at Vibe Insurance, a platform connecting insurance buyers looking for new insurance and matching them with top rated agencies in their specific niche. They work both Commercial and Personal Lines.

Brian Graff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-graff-a27aa782/
Vibe Insurance: https://www.vibeinsurance.co/

Tony chats with Amit Chabra, Founder & CEO at InEvo AI, they are a platform for intake process optimization utilizing all the modern technologies. It manages InEvo's AI agents and even external AI agents to optimize your intake process. For now they are serving Commercial Auto and Commercial Property with more lines to come.

Amit Chabra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amitchabra/
InEvo AI: https://inevo.ai/